Greenday is the best

My review is on Greenday's CD Nimrod. It was released on October 14, 1997. It's a rock CD that got 4 1/2 stars out of 5 on Amazon. The price of this CD is $10.99 on Amazon, but most likely around $18 in stores. Greenday is a well-known artist.

Their CD's today like American Idiot are more calm and crazy instead of wild and out there. My first thought on this CSD was that it was different to me at first, but after a little of getting used to I loved it. After you listen to t you will love it, but if you're like me it will grow on you. I think that all of the songs are good except one that is just plain music. I think that because I need words to rock out to and not just some music, but that is only my opion you may think differently.

There is no real unusual songs on there to me to you it might be unusual, but believe me you will be glad to have it. There are no hidden tracks on this CD at all so don't go looking for any. This CD is unique in it's own way. All you people out there, you will be extremely happy when you buy this CD it helps when you're mad because it will make you laugh. My overall rating of this Amazing CD is around a 9/10 to a 9 1/2 out of 10. I love this CD and I hope that this review helps you decide if it is a good or bad CD.

I miss this music!

I remember when this album came out, I was 15 or so writing my little zine in my bedroom. I can't believe this album has NEVER been reviewed. Its almost forgetting a piece of our musical history. The point when Green Day grew up! I love them then I love them now. This album had some slower tracks, which is possibly why it was a big let down for some Green Day fans. If you liked their latest album this one is worth a listen. This album spawned the mega hit."Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" but this album is more than that Its still got its punk roots. A few note worthy songs include "King for a Day" an ode to drag queenism. and "Nice Guys Finish Last" Possibly the greatest tribute to being last picked. "Platypus (I Hate You)" which is just worth listening to based on title alone! My favorite track on the whole thing is "Prosthetic Head" Why you ask? "Don't say you're not synthetic, you're pathetic." This was the album that is the soundtrack that plays in my mind when ever I think of my best friend and that last childhood summer. I miss it all.

there's nothing worse than a lame review title

i've left the review of this album until last, since i think it's effing rad, and is my favourite green day record to date.



so, insomniac is an album green day have since been quasi-ashamed of, claiming that they felt that they had to retain a heavy, punk image in their second mainstream record in order to compliment the success of dookie. somewhere between 1995 and 1997, green day felt that this shouldn't be the way they ran their music careers.



what sets nimrod apart from 1995's insomniac, and the 2000 release of warning, is that it retains an amazingly diverse sense of sound and melody without compensating with lack of green day energy. every song here contains a massive injection of green day-ness, while exploring different angles and corners of music which more often than not rejects the punk roots they started with. but you know, i don't think they cared. while songs like "nice guys finish last", "hitchin' a ride" and "prosthetic head" follow the lead of common green day fashion, the rest of the album begs to differ.



"king for a day", a bloody hilarious take on drag queens, almost crosses the border into ska, and is a crowd pleaser at every concert. "scattered" and "worry rock" are of similar pop-punk casts, and are some of the best on the record.



"the grouch" and "reject" are in a category of their own, both being aggressive punk anthems about growing up and rejecting pop-culture. then it becomes interesting. green day throw in their first instrumental track ever on nimrod, and "last ride in" succeeds immensely. it rather amuses me that people can't get into this song, and i put it down mostly to their attention span. it's a very solid effort which displays some musical complexity about green day that critics insist isn't there.



it doesn't seem out of place when "walking alone" begins with a harmonica (played by billie joe himself). it's a melancholy song about solitude, and i reckon it's brilliant. it's rad the way green day aren't afraid to slow things down, with both this song and "haushinka", which apparently you either hate or love. i adore it, personally. there's something about the reminiscing in the lyrics that gives it sentimental value for me whenever i hear it.



the only song which doesn't quite work on the album is "taking back". even on a disc this diverse, it doesn't manage to hold up, whether it be as a result of the indecipherable lyrics, the drowning-out guitars, or the amateur growling.



but dude. i bloody love this album. i'm proud that green day gave the finger to standard 3-chord songs, and by doing so, rising above a pathetically confined punk genre. you haven't heard, and will never understand, green day until you have listened to nimrod multiple times. you'll begin to find out that nimrod is a mere transition into warning, where green day perhaps overshot in terms of maturity and mellow-sounding complex music (but is nonetheless an outstanding and ridiculously underrated album). and indeed, you'll see what nimrod and american idiot have in common.



i've had nimrod since '99. it's no longer playable and has retired permanently into its case (i bought a new copy in january). if you aren't singing, whistling, humming, tapping, or dancing to these songs by the second turn of the cd, get a freaking hearing aid. or find a padded cell. you're mad.



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and did i mention good riddance is on there as well?